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NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

Another six-byline alarm on DOGE’s specious accounting. “That contract wasn’t canceled by DOGE or anyone else,” he said. “If they took credit for canceling the contract, they’re lying.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Over the weekend, 2 law professors published a terrible oped on birthright citizenship in the NYT which is being widely read, disseminated. They didn't do the required historical research & never even mention Reconstruction or the legislative intent. I did. Birthright citz is black letter law. 👇

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starting to think the only thing that kept the planes from crashing before was diversity.

submitted 15 days ago • 268 comments

Corruption seems like the card you have to show to get in the club.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Not to worry as it’s only a tier 1 violation of the Constitution and, as everyone knows, it only really becomes a problem at tier 3 and above.

submitted 22 days ago • 221 comments

Nearly the entire global work force of USAID will be put on leave by the end of Friday. The notice said only a small subset of "designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs" would be exempt. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 21 days ago • 1278 comments

Do I even have to say it?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Two federal employee unions have filed suit to block DOGE access to the Treasury Department’s payment system. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 days ago • 62 comments

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

submitted 23 days ago • 1618 comments

SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say System controls disbursement of trillions of dollars per yr www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 118 comments

Straight-up Orwellian.

submitted 27 days ago • 249 comments

BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order that attempts to restrict all schools that receive federal funds from protecting trans and nonbinary students or supporting diversity measures, while at the same time purporting to advance "patriotic education." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 27 days ago • 210 comments

RFK Jr. is far more than just an “anti-vaxxer.” Over the years, he’s made countless outrageous statements on a wide range of topics. We’ve compiled 10 of the wildest clips—though even that barely scratches the surface.

submitted 28 days ago • 1239 comments

Richard Epstein is out with a piece against birthright citizenship and it's bad. There is no analysis of citizenship and English common law. There's little conversation about the actual statements made by the proponents of Reconstruction. Wait! There's more: www.civitasinstitute.org/research/the...

submitted 29 days ago • 50 comments

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

submitted 29 days ago • 276 comments

The chance that these folks have no idea what they're doing is very high. I compared it in my item this morning to House GOpers who were so caught up in their anti-government extremism that they never imagined that a government shutdown could actually get people upset.

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

ALL of them? good fucking grief man www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

Quaker groups sued in Maryland today to prevent U.S. immigration agents from carrying arrests and searches in houses of worship, after the Trump administration rescinded guidance that protected churches and schools from his mass deportation campaign. www.reuters.com/legal/quaker...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Sadly, one of those brave patriots Trump pardoned last week just got in a shootout with police and has died. Strange, because he was otherwise such a great candidate (i.e. willing to commit violent crimes that Donald Trump happens to like) to be put back out on the streets

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

"He had nothing better to do after getting out of jail," is definitely a line I'm gonna start using in court.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

If a news report from a developing country said, "Factional leader purges government of law enforcement officials who investigated laundry list of corruption allegations," you know exactly what you'd call it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes,” says one close Trump ally. “Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis.” icymi 11/2024

submitted 32 days ago • 65 comments

The expectation that Trumpists would ever admit they were wrong, rather than blame everything on their favorite Emmanuel Goldstein, was always wrong. They would die with Trump’s knife in their back whining about Biden.

submitted 32 days ago • 50 comments

I think people are kinda missing the point of what Trump is talking about by dismantling FEMA. His vision is clearly that the federal government helps red states and lets blue states fend for themselves. Trump is not going to screw over red states, but he'll gladly punish blue ones.

submitted 33 days ago • 670 comments

"In interviews, health-care personnel described panicked efforts to learn if their programs had been affected ... 'Everything is basically in chaos. And frankly everyone is terrified.'" https://wapo.st/4jFIhuW

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Well then why did you vote for it, dumbasses?

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

This is how you do it...

submitted 35 days ago • 1053 comments

"What’s happening here is the creeping oligarchy of companies and capital aligning around an authoritarian president, with everyone fully aware that sucking up to him personally, ideally along with staggering sums of cash, is the only way to evade scrutiny."

submitted 34 days ago • 48 comments

The Trump administration said federal employees would face consequences if they failed to report colleagues pursuing DEI efforts

submitted 34 days ago • 83 comments

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

submitted 35 days ago • 333 comments

I think this is happening precisely because these things are tolerated in this democracy, where the rot runs deeper than many realize. Calling for egg on lawmakers' faces, after they're already on record failing to impose political consequences for the insurrection, doesn't get at the rot.

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

Just need six more and we can have a seditious libel trial.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Pete Hegseth sister-in-law, in new signed testimony, says he raged at ex-wife Among the allegations 👇 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 36 days ago • 310 comments

Trump has suspended refugee admissions programs. As a result: Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S. — including family members of active-duty U.S. military personnel — are having their flights canceled. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 36 days ago • 60 comments

BREAKING NBC: Senators have received an affidavit containing new allegations against Pete Hegseth. The affidavit, from Hegseth's former sister-in-law, says Hegseth's behavior caused his second wife to fear for her safety. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 36 days ago • 380 comments

Immigrant rights groups have already sued the Trump admin over Trump's executive order calling for the U.S. to no longer recognize birthright citizenship. The suit, filed by civil rights organizations including the ACLU, seeks to get the action tossed out as unconstitutional.

submitted 36 days ago • 30 comments

Two of the country’s most prominent far-right extremists — Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia — who played central roles in the Capitol attack have been set free under Trump's clemency order. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

submitted 36 days ago • 19 comments

A very good “talk you off the ledge” discussion.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Trump just withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization. The US is now the only country in the world besides Liechtenstein to not be a member of the organization.

submitted 36 days ago • 614 comments

hey #greensky you up

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

This, from the AP, reflects a deep misunderstanding. Citizens of Native nations were excepted from the 14A's guarantee of birthright citizenship for very specific reasons. Namely, tribal sovereignty and treaty promises that the US would not impose citizenship on them absent consent.

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments